December 13, 1999 MIAMI — A political debate is taking place here around the future of a five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, who survived a boat smuggling tragedy. U.S. officials have given him residency over the objections of his father…
More than 50 Pathfinder Press books by Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionary leaders are now available in formats accessible to readers who are blind or face other obstacles to reading. Several years ago, Pathfinder launched a project to convert…
MONTREAL — Some 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers went on strike across Canada Nov. 15, fighting for better wages and livable work conditions. Negotiations have dragged on since Nov. 15, 2023. “Canada Post left us no…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has stepped up the pace of his invading forces’ drive to seize more territory in the Donetsk region of Ukraine through “meat wave” frontal assaults. The Ukrainian defenders, stretched and outgunned but motivated and determined to…
“End this damned war, which has taken so many innocent lives,” an elderly man says in an online video clip, blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for the situation he and those standing with him find themselves in. He stands in…
NEWARK, N.J. — Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, spoke to a meeting of 35 at Rutgers Law School here Nov. 14. Law professor Charles Auffant, who has organized trips to study Cuba’s legal system for…
SYDNEY — Up to 10,000 nurses and midwives marched through the central city and rallied outside state Parliament here Nov. 13, chanting, “We won’t take it anymore, we want more in ’24” and “15% now!” The protest was both angry…
SPALDING, England — Now into the eighth week of their strike, hundreds of Unite union members at the Bakkavor food factory here voted by 81% to reject the bosses’ latest pay offer. The workers walked out Sept. 27 after rejecting…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two workers were killed and at least 11 injured when the Givaudan Sense Colour plant here exploded around 3 p.m. on Nov. 12. Part of the plant collapsed and the explosion sent shrapnel flying into the surrounding…
December 6, 1999 In the coal fields today miners are fighting against bosses attempts to gut the lifetime health benefits they won in struggle. Truck drivers are walking the picket lines to win a union at the largest nonunion trucking…
